Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

The Most Important Argument for Arizona’s Women is this Tuesday. You Can Watch!

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Arizona’s Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on an appeal out of District Two regarding the Arizona Legislature’s rampage of anti-abortion laws and the territorial era law entirely banning and criminalizing any abortion next Tuesday. Here is the Court’s argument summary. Here is the lower court’s opinion (PDF link), which would stand should the … Read more

Has MAGA GOP Cried Wolf on the Economy Once Too Often?

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AZBlueMeanie has been howling recently to me about how utterly fakakta the polling sentiments around the Biden economy have been. And he’s absolutely right: there is a huge divergence between how the economy is actually doing and many people’s perception of it. I have rarely seen that divergence better visualized than this chart which Chris … Read more

The MAGA Cult Sock-Puppeting the Corpse of the Republican Party Screech for Impeachment of AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes

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Seems we are seeing a pattern here: MAGA wants to impeach President Joe Biden… for reasons? They can’t exactly say why, except that everyone knows they are trying to drown out the stench of their likely nominee for President having been impeached… twice.

Now the Maricopa County Republican Committee is pressing the Republican Caucus in the Arizona Legislature to impeach AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes… for reasons?

Our Democratic LD18 Legislative Team Launches Reelection Campaign

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Here in Tucson, the mighty LD18 (D+20) team of state legislators, Sen. Priya Sundareshan, Reps. Chris Mathis and Nancy Gutierrez launched their 2024 reelection campaign from Ft. Lowell Park in the heart of the district. They are running as a slate (you can make donations to the entire team here) and I haven’t heard any … Read more